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Opinion Journal: What More Can Bernanke Do?

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... the slowdown ... the euro but if ... you're one of ... them were taken said Chairman and so does finally get month up until the middle of the questions are or ... are bound to be about to ... what what more can you do Mr chairman due to juice the economy here what what can you do to get things done and it ... sounds like maybe this isn't the best development for looking for a while ... for economic growth in May with a related deal of comments that they're right now the Fed is good that Congress is and want the Fed to somehow put more money out there because they think that if they put more money out there people would start spending and so forth but your jihad interest rates very low so there's nothing he can be generally cover ... and in the mostly Hindu probably is buying more debt because when the Fed buys that they put ... money into the system more liquidity into the system ... but really the problem that the Fed is having it's won with out what they called velocity and in other words money is out there but it's not changing hands ... it's not being invested ... and that it comes down to certainty and confidence in the system and that's why what this president is doing today is very troubling because when you start to ... have a lot of regulatory burdens out there and a lot of regulatory uncertainty businesses pullback because they're not sure how much all that's going to cost them ... and when they pull back that FX hiring and so forth so it's not a matter to shoving more money into the system at some point ... you have to re gain confidence ... with the uncertainty of that means ... no more legislation no more